Food Plants That Grow in The Tropics
An ongoing, ever-evolving list of plants we grow or that we have heard you can grow, in the tropics. Full posts on all of these plants, trees, and herbs are to come. We focus on plants that grow well and easily in tropical conditions, not those that require a lot of extra work, pesticides and…
What Food Can I Grow in The Wet Season?
The wet season of 2021 was our first wet season at home, in the tropics for 9 years. As such, it was hugely interesting to see exactly which food plants would survive theilow light, intense heat, humidity, and torrential rain of the tropical summer. Not just survive, I wanted to see which vegetables, herbs and…
December in The Garden
What’s growing, fruiting, flowering, germinating, and cropping in our tropical food garden in December? December is the first month of summer where we are. It’s also the start of the tropical wet season This means it’s going to be super-interesting to see what effect torrential rain, less sun, and waterlogging or even soil errosion will…
Can You Grow Pumpkins in the Tropics?
When I first started our tropical garden I wasn’t sure if you could grow pumpkins in the tropics or not. Being from the northern, temperate, hemisphere, I associated pumpkins with autumn harvest, thanksgiving, winter storage and spring plantings. I decided to just plant some seeds and see what happened. Most certainly, yes, you can grow…
October Harvesting and Planting
What’s going on in the tropical food garden in October? October for us, here in the Southern Hemisphere, just 16 degrees south of the equator, is still spring officially, but it feels like full summer to me. .October is a month of abundance in the garden, temperatures have climbed so much that we start to…
September Harvesting and Planting
What’s growing, fruiting, flowering, germinating, and cropping in our tropical food garden in September. That’s the first month of spring where we are. By the end of the first week of September the days were starting to get unpleasantly hot. For the first time I could feel summer coming and dreading it, honestly. There was…
What To Plant in The Tropics in May
May is the last month of autumn for us but already it’s getting a bit chilly at night. If you can call 20 degrees C chilly! Days are still hot and we’re still having a little rain, but the dry season is around the corner. We’re still eating aubergines (eggplant), chillies, grapefruit, mung beans, pumpkins…